Once a sister organization of the Charlotte Hornets, Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, purchased the team in January 2003, shortly after he was announced as the principal owner of an NBA expansion franchise that was later named the Charlotte Bobcats. Johnson changed a Sting team colors from either a Hornets' teal & purple to the Lynx rufus' blue & orange inside 2004.

A Sting might get into a Bay lynx' newly front yard, Charlotte Bobcats Arena, in 2006.

Uniforms: 2004 - Present: on the road, orange by using blue trim, Sting logotype text on the chest. Home, white using orange trim. Sting logotype mascot on the shorts 1997 - 2003: on the road, weak blue by using white & purple trim, Sting logotype text on the chest. Home, white by using blue & purple trim. Sting logotype mascot on the shorts.

Franchise history
Additionally to existence one of a foremost WNBA franchises, a Charlotte Sting use as well been one of the virtually all successful. In their number one 3 seasons of being, it mass produced a playoffs every season. Inside 1999, with a folding of the ABL, the Sting added previous ABL guard Dawn Staley to an already impressive roll that featured Vicky Bullett and Andrea Stinson.

Fallowing the dissatisfactory year inside 2000 inside which it failed to produce a playoffs first around franchise history, they mass produced one of a virtually all unexpected comebacks in sales person sports history in a period of the 2001 season as it rebounded from either the One-10 starting to produce the playoffs using a win-loss record of 18-14. It capped off a 2001 year by owning an appearance in the WNBA Finals, where it misused to the Los Angeles Sparks.

When an additional playoff appearance around 2002, the team was bought by Charlotte Bobcats owner Robert L. Johnson in 2003. A 2003 year saw eventually an additional playoff appearance for the venerable Sting. Yet, inside 2004, the team mass produced many key roll additions to its established class action of veterans. Fallowing day trading Kelly Miller to the Indiana Fever in exchange for the 3rd overall pick in the WNBA Draft, the Sting drafted Stanford University standout Nicole Powell. A Sting manufactured quaternity picks overall - including a 2nd circular pick of Penn State standout Kelly Mazzante.

When it did non produce a playoffs in the 2004 season, a Sting continued to build for the first - commodities trading by using the Sacramento Monarchs for Tangela Smith and a second-spherical draft pick in the 2006 draft in the treat that saw Nicole Powell traded to Sacramento. Getting won a 1st pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft, the Sting selected University of Minnesota Golden Gophers player Janel McCarville. A team missed a playoffs for another straight year within 2005 & finished a regular year using league's worst record. [http://www.wnba.com/games/20050827/CONCHA/recap.html] A year wwhen notable as it traded Sting seasoned Dawn Staley to the Houston Comets and named Charlotte basketball icon Muggsy Bogues as their new head coach late in the year. A year too saw a team play its go game in the Charlotte Coliseum, the team's residence arena since 1997.

Players of note
Hall of Famers

Retired numbers

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Not to be forgotten
Vicky Bullett Andrea Congreaves Rhonda Mapp Kelly Miller Tracy Reid Charlotte Smith-Taylor Dawn Staley Tora Suber

Current roster

Coaches and others
Head Coaches: Marydell Meadows (1997 - 1999) Dan Hughes (1999), now a Head Coach sustaining a San Antonio Silver Stars T.R. Dunn (2000) Anne Donovan (2001 - 2002) (Hall of Famer) Trudi Lucey (2003 - August 2, 2005), too served when a team's General Manager Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues (August 3, 2005 - Present)